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Nostalgic western blotter turned public health weapon
MPH, global health, ID, HIV, advocacy
#VUMedicine
📍Nashville
🚲👟🎿🏂
Thesis? Defended ☑️
Questions? Fielded ☑️
Policies for better HIV prevention and control in the United States? As of lately, not great, but we keep fighting 🔺
March 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It’s almost like criminalizing homelessness and treating people inhumanly leads to worse outcomes for communities. The intersectionality of healthcare, housing, and human rights is well established at this point, now make a plan !
Behavioral Health and Homelessness | Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative
Behavioral health challenges both contribute to and are exacerbated by homelessness. To better understand behavioral health and homelessness, we examined data from the California Statewide Study of Pe...
homelessness.ucsf.edu
March 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🦠 AAV9 proves itself as powerfully therapeutic AND has the potential to cure rare diseases 👏🏼

Exciting to see hard work payoff!
Can’t acknowledge this pub without acknowledging existence of systemic barriers to medicines for rare diseases too.

I thank the academy (Tenaya) and of course my mice.
AAV9-mediated MYBPC3 gene therapy with optimized expression cassette enhances cardiac function and survival in MYBPC3 cardiomyopathy models - Nature Communications
Loss-of-function mutations in Myosin Binding Protein C3, MYBPC3, are the most common genetic cause of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Here, the authors present an AAV9-based gene therapy system with an o...
www.nature.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Love you Keith Haring ♥️
Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
February 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Truly the saddest recognition I’ve ever received. Mourning the CDC today 💔
February 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Reposted by konor
I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.

Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.

A thread.
January 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Perhaps the beginning of the end for Meta?
January 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I love you Charli #Charlixcx
I want you to see me Fred !
#againandagainandagainandagain
Unsurprising to me– drop your wrapped below!
December 4, 2024 at 10:01 PM
As a fellow big data contributor, this is a HUGE day for functional biology and science! We're now much closer to "uncovering the intricate details of how the genes in our cells shape life."

#open #ethical #comprehensive

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
The Human Cell Atlas: towards a first draft atlas
In a collection of research articles and related content, the Human Cell Atlas consortium presents tools, data and ideas towards the generation of their first draft atlas of cells in the human body.
www.nature.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Inaugural Blueskeet !
A major milestone completed –my work with VUMC’s Dpt of Health of Policy outlined the fruitfulness and feasibility of including rural Tennessee counties in the CDC’s Emerging Infections Program (COVID-19, influenza, and RSV). #VUMedicine #VU #EIPDay
November 18, 2024 at 8:05 PM